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Operation Hideaway -- You Won't See It Coming

Written by Jeff Pardo

These days, we've all been boning up on interception procedures, and we've been getting our NOTAMs and checking them twice, but sometimes that doesn't help.

On The Ground and On Your Own

Written by Paul A. Craig

Congratulations! You successfully navigated to a busy controlled airport, handled all the radio work, and even landed on the correct runway.

On September 11...

Written by Jeff Pardo

Our country was defiled, our way of life was visibly threatened, and our citizens were traumatized by an act of war -- of unprecedented proportions -- visited upon our soil.

I don't know about you, but you might say that I have an approach/avoidance conflict with some non-precision approaches, in particular with VOR approaches. On the one hand, I like them because they cut me some slack if I'm feeling mellow, the weather isn't too crummy, and the ceilings are still comfortably in the neighborhood of the transition point from three to four digits. Then again, particularly with the VOR approaches for which the navigation facility isn't on the field, the errors can really accumulate if your navigation equipment isn't as precise as it once was, and you don't fly them accurately. When the chips are down (along with the ceilings and visibility), that might just leave you wondering-particularly when you emerge from the clouds and the runway (or even the airport environment) is nowhere in sight.

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